A representative to be appointed, Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training

Brian Farquhar, BC Parks & Recreation Association

The PTAB will be co-chaired by John Hawkings, newly appointed Director of Recreation Sites and Trails BC, and Jeremy McCall: ED of ORC.

– Bowen Island and BCIT Woodlot: no update. Tennessee is still working on them.

i. Tamihi Staging Area – nearly complete.

j. Nahatlatch and Harrison Fire Lookouts – of the $7000. How much is left? Needs roofing. Money should be spent by the end of March. Materials need to be flown in? Could parking lot at trailhead be made larger?

k. Section 57 Applications (just clearing/maintaining trails)

– are there any 57’s out there? Marina needs to know. We don’t want overlapping uses conflicts.

– the Trimble GPS unit that RST has cannot be lent out

l. Section 56 Applications (gives trails a legal designation on a land base)

– there are 9. 3 are being worked on: Mt Cheam (snowmobile), Spencers Ridge (Mtn bike above Tamahi CRV) and

Tamahi (kids riding loop to help get users of the FSR which will help noise issue).

– Chapter 10 for trail standards: has not been updated as there are no resources available to do it. There are some

Engineered drawings around if needed contact Tennessee T.

m. NTC funds – some of the projects mentioned above that were approved for NTC funds also have funds coming from

RST. The issue is they won’t know for sure about the RST funds until the 2015 budget is announced in April.

n. Budget – no update

o. FSR, Gates, Decommissioning and Closures

– as far as we know there is not gate inventory at the moment

– CRAG members would rather Engineering keep an updated website consistently

– question: should Jacquie send out an email notice to the whole CRAG contact list each time she is notified the

website has been updated? Consensus was not to have Jacquie send out an email notification.